It's like the reductive take people in other countries have where they think literally the entirety of "American cuisine" is fast food chains, like the definition of "American" is McDonald's and KFC
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I guess I will say that I see people take this too far sometimes, saying "Oh egg rolls and fried rice and lo mein aren't real Chinese food, they don't exist in China" And that's obviously false, most of these menu items are at least based on something centuries old
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Like "instant" lo mein noodles (which became ramen noodles in Japan) are one of the oldest "instant" foods in the world, sold in marketplaces in the Song Dynasty But I mean hamburgers and fries were a thing before the McDonald Brothers too
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That's the funny thing, like McDonald's *created* the negative reputation that stuck to the foods the McDonalds decided were the cheapest and easiest to turn into assembly-line manufacture Which is why the early McDonald's ads feel so weird now
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The original Ronald McDonald could look right at the camera and say "A hamburger, French fries and a milkshake, the perfectly balanced lunch" partly because nutrition was a young science then and partly because no one particularly thought of those as trashy cheap foods yet
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Like it wasn't a big deal for Thomas Jefferson to introduce French fries to the White House and serve them with steak because it was just a new way to make potatoes (Nowadays you have to call them "steak fries" or "frites")
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Now I'm thinking of that Onion article where a McDonald's executive tries to get them to change their whole menu because he thinks those foods are obsolete And he keeps insistently saying "hamburger sandwich" and "French fried potatoes"
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